GPG Keychain
GPG Keychain is a macOS utility from gpgtools for managing OpenPGP keys, certificates, and encryption settings used by GnuPG tools.
What is GPG Keychain?
GPG Keychain is the graphical key management app included with GPGTools on macOS. People use it to create, import, export, trust, and revoke OpenPGP keys, and to manage encryption identities for secure email, file encryption, signing, and other GnuPG-based workflows.
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
This is generally a legitimate security utility when installed intentionally. It can store or manage sensitive encryption keys, so removing related data may permanently affect access to encrypted files, signatures, or trusted key settings.
Recommendation: Keep it if you use GPGTools, OpenPGP, encrypted email, or file signing and encryption. If you do not recognize it, review whether GPGTools was intentionally installed before removing the app or any related key data.
Common paths
/Applications/GPG Keychain.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/org.gpgtools.gpgkeychain
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/org.gpgtools.gpgkeychain.plist
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